A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... LITERATURE . FROM THE BIRTH OF CHAUCER ABOUT 1328 A.D. TO THE INTRODUCTION OF S PRINTING BY CAXTON IN 1474 A.D. I. The Minstrel and the Monk ........ II . Sir John de Mandeville .............. III . John de Wycliffe ...
... LITERATURE . FROM THE BIRTH OF CHAUCER ABOUT 1328 A.D. TO THE INTRODUCTION OF S PRINTING BY CAXTON IN 1474 A.D. I. The Minstrel and the Monk ........ II . Sir John de Mandeville .............. III . John de Wycliffe ...
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... literature of England , as indeed of all Europe , lay during the earlier and central periods of the Middle Ages in the hands of the Minstrels and the Monks . The minstrel , roaming through the land , sang ballads of love and war ; the ...
... literature of England , as indeed of all Europe , lay during the earlier and central periods of the Middle Ages in the hands of the Minstrels and the Monks . The minstrel , roaming through the land , sang ballads of love and war ; the ...
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